Most people’s response to an afternoon of presentations will be: ‘Do I have to stay for all of them?’ Presentations are often dull and ineffective but they don’t have to be. A presentation and a conversation are essentially the same thing and if you arrange your content properly, you can present as easily as if …

Pecha Kucha is a global presentation phenomenon in which speakers are restricted to 20 slides that change automatically every 20 seconds. The idea was patented (yes, ‘patented’ !!) in 2003 by two Tokyo based architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein and this short video looks at what makes this format of presentation work (and fail) …

Graphs don’t have to be the worst thing in your presentation. In fact presentations – which are live, interactive, physical, 3-dimensional, personal – offer the best forum for presenting numbers through graphs as this short video (with a little help from Hans Rosling) shows.

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Watch this week’s videocast featuring a clip of a presenter going from a mumble to a roast almost without flinching. Important lesson on presentation delivery within. New book, Awful Presentations, available now.

Watch this week’s videocast, which finds insights on how to deliver a presentation from an unlikely source: the Trotter brothers. It shows how arguments unlock the key to good delivery. It’s funny, too. Get my new book, Awful Presentations, here.